Sayfullah Shishani

Sayfullah Shishani (died 2014) was a Chechen jihadist who was a veteran of wars in Chechnya, Afghanistan, and Syria.

Biography
Sayfullah Shishani was born to a Chechen family, and his family lived in the Pankisi Gorge border region of the Republic of Georgia. Sayfullah was said to have given up a secular life for jihad, and he was said to have fought in Chechnya and Afghanistan, being wounded at a minefield at Johar. Unable to return to Chechnya, he spent over a year in military action during the Afghanistan War. Sayfullah was also described as having donated a million dollars to Abu Omar al-Shishani's jamaat. During the Syrian Civil War, Shishani was one of the Chechen foreign fighters to fight for the al-Nusra Front, and he spoke Chechen, Georgian, and Turkish fluently, a small amount of Arabic, and poor Russian. Shishani welcomed other Chechen foreign fighters when they arrived in Syria, and he was upset when Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi created the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, calling it a fitna. He sold his own car to purchase ammunition for his jamaat, and he was known to be generous with handing out money. In 2014, however, the kidney issue-stricken Shishani changed his attitude, expressing regret for his past sins and becoming depressed with the internment of women at the Aleppo Central Prison. Shishani decided to launch a suicidal attempt at storming the prison, and he was hit in the head by shrapnel and killed.